Lineman Russell Okung in 2010 and cornerback Kelly Jennings in 2006 were among the first-round picks who missed the early days of Seahawks training camps while in hard-ball talks on their first NFL deals.

The NFL's official transactions for Tuesday showed the Seahawks signed fifth-round draft choice Jamarco Jones and seventh-round pick Alex McGough to their four-year rookie deals.

On Wednesday, the team signed first-round pick Rashaad Penny.

That means Seattle has six of its nine selections from the draft already signed—and the draft was only two weeks ago. The team has yet to hold organized team activities or its mandatory offseason veteran minicamp yet, let alone training camp that begins the last week of July.

The league can thank Sam Bradford for ending its previous rookie issues.

The top overall pick in the 2010 draft got $50 million in guaranteed money from the St. Louis Rams on a six-year, $78 million contract. Bradford's deal was at the time the most guaranteed cash in NFL history— for a kid just out of college, who had never played in a pro game.

Such was the result of years of market inflation and leveraging between the agents for top rookie draft picks and teams with ballooning revenues and cash to spend.

Back then, veteran players were irate that their teams were giving college kids more money than they had earned in years.

The players were largely beaten in the 2011 negotiations with owners over a new collective bargaining agreement. But one accomplishment the union did for its veterans in negotiating that new CBA that runs through 2020 is creating a schedule and cap on rookie contracts.

Deals for drafted rookies are all now four years, with teams holding a fifth-year option on first-round picks. And the money allotted to all picks in all seven rounds are slotted.

The veterans, of course, love it. Teams do, too. Owners are absolutely for anything that limits their costs.

NFL rookie salaries are now based on a league-defined rookie compensation pool. That pool is expected to be about $1.25 billion for all 32 teams this year, with an estimated $520 million of that earmarked for first-round picks. That total isn't split evenly about the teams. It's divided in proportion to each team's total number of draft picks and where those selections were in each round.

So Cleveland, with the first picks in each round after being the league's worst team in 2017 plus the recipient of many extra picks through trades, gets a far larger portion of the league's 2018 rookie compensation pool than Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia.

The Seahawks, who originally held the 18th overall pick in round one of last month's draft after their first non-playoff season in six years, are close to the middle of the league pack in rookie compensation pool money.

To further limit spending on rookie deals, this CBA has a "25-percent Increase Rule." That mandates a rookie's annual total of base salary plus bonus money cannot increase by more than 25 percent from any one year to the next within his contract. So even inflation on any rookie contract is now capped.

The Seahawks have four more rookie picks to sign, including first-round draft choice Rashaad Penny. But unlike in the previous CBA, those remaining deals aren't a matter of if, but when.

Based on the 2018 salary cap of $177.2 million for each team and calculating the rookie compensation pool for each team off that, Forbes has already estimated what the contracts for Penny and every other first-round pick will be.

Comparing Bradford of eight years ago to now: 2018 first-overall pick Baker Mayfield, coincidentally also a quarterback from Oklahoma, is slotted to get a $33.2 million contract with a $22.2 million signing bonus from Cleveland.

Terms of Penny's contract were not disclosed, but as the 27th overall selection he was slotted to get a deal from the Seahawks with a total value of $10,903,622, with a signing bonus of $6,000,306. Much of his contract is likely to be guaranteed.

Ex-Navy QB signed as WR, returner

Seattle is expected to sign former Navy quarterback and Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Keenan Reynolds to a free-agent contract to catch passes and possibly return kicks, a league source told The News Tribune on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Ian Rapoport of the league-owned NFL Network.

The Seahawks lost wide receiver Paul Richardson to Washington in free agency in March. In September they traded former No.-2 wide receiver Jermaine Kearse of Lakewood to the New York Jets for defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson. And one-time Pro Bowl kick returner Tyler Lockett, another Seahawks wide receiver, is entering the final year of his rookie contract with Seattle.

The 24-year-old Reynolds was on Washington's practice squad late last season, beginning in November. He was on the Ravens' practice squad as a rookie in 2016.

The Obama administration relaxed service rules and began allowing some academy graduates the chance to defer active-duty time and go into the Ready Reserve immediately to pursue NFL careers. The Trump administration rescinded the two-year waiver-request policy, making Reynolds the last NFL draft pick and entrant under the previous service-waiver option.

In 2015, Reynolds set the NCAA top-division record for the most career rushing touchdowns with 85, breaking the old mark Adrian Peterson had set at Oklahoma. Reynolds finished fifth in voting for that year's Heisman Trophy. That was the highest finish by a service-academy player since Navy quarterback Roger Staubach won the Heisman in 1963.

Reynolds was a running back when he was invited to East-West Shrine Game for college all-stars following his senior season at Navy. He's been a wide receiver and kick return during those seasons since with Baltimore and Washington.